The Century of the Holocaust and Hiroshima has ended
with a humanitarian milestone: The intervention of the world's mightest
military alliance against a sovereign state in the name of human rights.
For once in history, might did right.

However, the condition for doing the right thing set
down by the consumer democracies of the West was clear: Few, if any, casualties.
Herein lies the paradoz of "post-heroic" warefare: Those societies
most likely to wage war over human rights are also the least willing to
suffer losses precisely because they are liberal and democratic. Because
of their humanitarian ehtos, they are also unwilling to inflict too much
damage on the enemy.